GBP Chapter 410 That's My Mother
Chapter 410 That's My Mother
But if she keeps crying like this, it will be dawn soon.
Helpless, Xu Youan could only rummage through his Qiankun bag and take out a silver moonstone that was only pretty and useless, but was the best at pleasing young girls, and handed it to her.
"Don't cry, here you go."
"This is bright, so you won't be afraid of the dark anymore."
Wang Yueyue stared blankly at Xu Youan again, and surprisingly, she stopped crying. Instead, she clasped her hands together and tightly gripped the silver moonstone in her palm.
"Thank you... thank you, young man..."
Xu Youan nodded slightly to her, then told her to follow. This time, Wang Yueyue bravely got up. Although she was very weak, she still insisted on following behind him, and together they slowly left the city lord's mansion.
When he turned around and saw that her lips were pale and her head was covered in cold sweat, Xu Youan realized that she had been imprisoned for five years and her body must be weak. It was quite a feat that she could grit her teeth and not make a sound, and keep up with him as they left the city lord's mansion.
After thinking for a moment, Xu You'an took out a Spirit Gathering Pill and handed it to her.
"To heal injuries." The statement is concise and to the point.
Wang Yueyue initially wanted to shake her head and refuse, after all, he had already done her a favor by rescuing her, and she couldn't accept anything more from him. However, looking into his calm and dark eyes under the moonlight, for some reason, she didn't refuse.
Having done his basic humanitarian duty, Xu Youan ignored her and instead estimated the time, wondering when his senior sister would return.
However, the person he longed for did not return; instead, Li Chuanlu came back.
Seeing his empty hands, Xu Youan asked him directly what he had discovered.
Just as Li Chuanlu was about to speak, he noticed the timid girl hiding behind Xu Youan. He immediately asked Xu Youan where she came from.
Xu Youan briefly explained how he found her and brought her back.
"She's the city lord's daughter?" Li Chuanlu couldn't believe it; how could the city lord treat his own child like this?
Xu Youan nodded in affirmation, then asked, "What about you? Did you find anything?"
Li Chuanlu glanced at Wang Yueyue and said somewhat uncertainly, "I found an... ice coffin inside."
An ice coffin?
Xu Youan was slightly surprised.
Why is there an ice coffin in the city lord's mansion?
"There's a woman inside, I suspect it's probably..."
“That’s my mother.” Wang Yueyue was still afraid of the unfamiliar Li Chuanlu, but when she heard him mention this, she mustered up her courage and interjected.
Upon hearing this, Li Chuanlu and Xu Youan understood, yet were also taken aback.
The woman in that ice coffin was the wife of the city lord of Chang Le City.
She's already dead?!
"I've heard from my senior brothers and sisters that the City Lord of Chang Le City and his wife are very loving, a rare divine couple in the cultivation world. However, the City Lord's wife has limited talent and her lifespan cannot be the same as the City Lord's, so they probably won't be able to grow old together or ascend to the immortal realm together. I just didn't expect..."
Li Chuanlu paused.
There are some things that are better left unsaid in front of Wang Yueyue, who is still quite young.
After all, it was her mother who had passed away.
Wang Yueyue knew what he was going to say. Many people had lamented to her that her mother had died far too young, that life was unpredictable...
She was sad, but she was proud of her mother.
Her mother perished in a battle against demonic beasts while protecting the millions of people of Chang Le City.
Her mother always told her that with every position comes a corresponding responsibility. As the city lord's wife and daughter, their responsibility was to protect the people of this region.
Her mother may not have been particularly powerful, nor possessed high cultivation, but she dedicated her life to upholding her beliefs, and the people of the city loved and respected her just as much, never forgetting her kindness. In her heart, even immortals and gods could not compare to her mother.
But for Father, Mother's passing was like a gaping wound in his heart that never healed...
So that's why Daddy "went crazy," right?
That's why her father, who loved her the most, locked her in a deserted courtyard and never came to see her again.
"Big brother, big brother." Wang Yueyue suddenly knelt down directly in front of Xu Youan and Li Chuanlu, kowtowing to them with all her might. "Yueyue begs you to help Yueyue, to help Yueyue's father, to make him the father he used to be, the father that Mother loves the most..."
Li Chuanlu was startled and dared not let a young girl kneel before him like that. His cold expression instantly cracked, and he hurriedly went to help her up.
Xu Youan remained motionless, his thoughts drawn to the implied meaning in her words: "What do you mean, how do you want us to help you?"
Wang Yueyue refused to stand up and pushed Li Chuanlu's hand away in resistance. She opened her mouth several times before finally making up her mind: "My father has always wanted to revive my mother. My father went into seclusion for this purpose. Before he went into seclusion, he told me that he had found a way to revive my mother. But when he came out of seclusion, my mother was still in the ice coffin, but he was no longer like my father."
"No—he's not my father at all!"
Xu Youan was stunned, and Li Chuanlu was also too shocked to speak.
What does she mean by that?
The city lord wants to resurrect his deceased wife?
Is the current city lord no longer the original city lord?
Was he...possessed? Or was it merely a change in temperament?
“The city lord of Chang Le City is at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm…” Li Chuanlu said, his voice full of surprise and uncertainty.
Can a cultivator in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm simply take over another's body? Even if he is severely injured or on the verge of death, he can still self-destruct his dantian before being possessed, taking the other person down with him!
Impossible! There's absolutely no such possibility!
"Could it be that someone is impersonating the city lord?" Li Chuanlu felt that this possibility was more likely.
Xu Youan had never met that city lord before, so how could he be sure that the other party was an imposter or a possessor?
But speaking of which... it's been quite a while since the agreed time, why hasn't my senior sister returned yet?
Anxiety and worry began to rise in his heart.
After thinking for only a second, he immediately used the jade tablet to inform Wang Yueyue about her situation and asked her how long it would take for her to return.
However, the message disappeared without a trace, and he waited for a long time without receiving a reply, which made him anxious.
Is my senior sister in any danger?
But he didn't sense any intense fluctuations of spiritual energy throughout the entire city lord's mansion...
Could it be that he was careless and didn't notice?
The more he guessed, the more uneasy he became, so he decided to go find her immediately.
He instructed Li Chuanlu to take Wang Yueyue back to the inn and ensure her safety. He then went to the city lord's mansion to find his senior sister, and afterwards returned to the inn to reunite with them.
Li Chuanlu, having waited so long for Jiang Liqian to emerge, was worried about her safety. He nodded in agreement to Xu Youan's suggestion and left with Wang Yueyue to avoid any further complications.